Chadwick Shoults of Creative Video Tips on the M1 Max MacPro vs his Mac Pro for video editing in DaVinci Resolve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJMfX9Kdmts Another great video from Chadwick shoults and this one showing just how fast the new M1 Max MacBook Pro is at DaVinci Resolve, which not only says allot about what Apple did, but also what Black Magic Design has done about getting DaVinci to really shine on Apple Silicon. Man I can't wait for an Apple Silicon iMac Pro and Mac Pro to really see what these chips can do, and if rumors are right they will likely be M2 Max chips, as the MacBook Air next year is likely to be the first M2.

Scott Simmons at Pro Video Coalition review the 16 inch Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max for Video Editors Part 1

Scott Simons has released the first part of a must read review of using the Apple MAcBook Pro M1 Max for Video Editors. Things sounds great so far, and it really gives me hope for the Apple Silicon iMac Pro and Mac Pro. Still hope that plug in makers start speeding up the process of re-writing their software for M1. It disturbs me that even companies like Maxon with Red Giant hasn't upgraded everything to M1 yet, even though it is a subscription, which means they really should be upgrading their applications quickly, because I am paying for them constantly. At least Adobe has the Beta of After Effects working on M1, but it is going to be limited on plug ins for sure.

Blackmagic Design updated DaVinci Resolve to version 17.4, anyone else annoyed by forced full screen mode on mac, took me a minute to figure out how to turn it off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73CUWtTs0kM Blackmagic Design has upgraded DaVinci Resolve to 17.4, with support for the M1 Pro and M1 Max and a ton of new features. Unfortunately they have gone Full Screen as default and it took me a while to figure out how to turn it the hell off, but when I did it fixed a big complaint which was DaVinci hiding my damn dock. I love DaVinci, and I love all the free updates at a rapid pace, but my biggest complaint about DaVinci is it's lack of customization, and I find forcing full screen mode to be another customization annoyance. My big complaint with Final Cut Pro (x) is that it feels designed by engineers who want to force you to use a program how they want to, and not how you want to. I have always felt AVID and Premiere allow you to set things up how they work best for you, and I always customize allot, with DaVinci you are forced to work how they want to, down to being forced to hide my dock, and now being forced into full screen mode. And honestly my biggest complaint of this is the menus. i want the menus there all the time, not dissapearing and coming back when I put my mouse there, that loses efficiency! OK anyway, to turn it off, you have to bring up the menu, then when you see the stop sings, hit the green one. Full Screen Mode in Davinci with Hidden menus When you put your cursor in the menu, the dots come up under the menu and the green turns off full screen. Exit Full Screen And even better once I exited Full Screen mode, DaVinci added something new, for the main screen I can now resize the window and it even shows my dock! WOOHOOO. I have never liked Full Screen nor having my dock go away, as I leave it up always on my main monitor, so actually I think this is great. Now if only the second screen worked like this as well, this is how the second monitor works in Final Cut Pro and I hate it there as well. And there is a ton more to like in the new update, look at all these features: What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.4 Key Features• Hardware accelerated Apple ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max.• Faster DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Mac OS Monterey.• Native HDR viewers and 120 Hz playback on supported MacBook Pros.• Native Dropbox and Dropbox Replay integration with render presets.• Sync markers, comments, annotations with Dropbox and Dropbox Replay.• Export timeline markers as YouTube video or QuickTime chapters.• Steinberg VST3 support with access to even more audio effects.• Simplified auto color management settings with SDR and HDR selection.• Improved 3D keyer and matte finesse controls.• New Resolve FX including film halation and custom mixers.• Text+ support for combined glyphs, right to left text and vertical layouts.• Subtitles can auto resize backgrounds and…

More with the Mac Gamma Shift and tagging video with the 2.4 gamma in DaVinci, following my post on color correction in Premiere Pro

So yesterday I had a post how Adobe's new color correction feature in Premiere Pro 2022 didn't do anything to fix the gamma shift issue on Mac on exports, and I posted a link to my post in a facebook group on Premiere Pro for Pro users. Responses included finishing everything in DaVinci, which does nothing about Premiere's handling of the issue, and people saying just work on a PC which will fix the issue, though it won't if you have people viewing on Mac, because the gamma shift will happen then. And then there were the responses about putting the Gamma 2.4 tag in DaVinci in fact tagging the clip wrongly to display correctly on Mac, and I decided to do a little test with Parallels to see how the clips show up in Windows. And I know that putting the Gamma 2.4 tag on your footage is ignored by YouTube, which ignores a 121 tag on footage and in fact forces 111 which will then have the gamma shift. So to start this is short film I am working on, and the first part are the clip set with the DaVinci Gamma tag set to Gamma 2.4 on export. This is the Gamma Tag I am talking about. So I exported the show with this tag. So the left is the 111 tag and the right side is the 121 tag on mac in quicktime. The 121 is much closer to what I am seeing on my external monitor So this is the 111 on left and 121 tag on right, these look the same, and actually look better than the 121 tag in Quicktime, So the left is the clip with 121 tag in quicktime and the same clip in VLC on the right, VLC looks like the correct look, so VLC is still the best solution. Now I wanted to see about the tags and how they would look in Windows, so I have Windows 11 installed in Parallels, and I used both just Windows viewer and VLC in Windows, now I just used whatever size they opened at so I will scale down the other images to match framing. And the frame might be slightly different as I couldn't figure out how to go frame by frame in Windows player. This is all on my iMac Pro, though screen shotting form mac, find it interesting that the 121 Gamma 2.4 tag matches on Windows to Mac, but VLC on Mac and WIndows doesn't and VLC on Mac looks closest to what is on my external monitor. So the 111 on the left and the 121 on the right tag look the same in windows. So this is the 111 tag on the left and the 121 tag on the right in VLC in windows. And this is the 111 tag on the left and the 121 tag on the right and to me the color correct looks the same. On the left is the 111…

Logan Baker at Premium Beat on Giving up Premiere Pro for DaVinci Resolve after One Year

Logan Baker at Premium Beat on everything he learned in a year of switching from Premiere Pro to DaVinci Resolve. Well worth the read. I have delved into DaVinci Resolve myself, at first just for it's coloring, but then I have also done editing in it. And I tend to agree with what he says that is better in premiere, basically the interface itself, the ability to control the interface, the integration with After Effects, and the Essential Graphics Panel. I would of course also add the Essential Sound panel as it is a great start for a mix. The interface control for me is huge. I love how in Premiere like AVID before it there are so many ways to do the same thing, keyboard shortcut or using the mouse, while I feel like DaVinci is much more forcing you a single way with many commands only available through keyboard shortcuts. And you can't add your favorite controls to the interface, what they chose is what you get. The article doesn't talk about it, but I also want to talk a little about the Cut Page. It is a very Final Cut Pro X addition to DaVinci, for quick cutting a rough cut with smart edits and transitions and it is what their Speed Editor interface is totally focused on. While I do like that it will take a folder and string everything together so I can zip through footage quickly, I can do that in Premiere with Stringout sequences. And I spend so much less time on the initial edit than on the actual edit, that I would much rather focus more on the edit page than the damn cut page. Sorry, end of rant on the cut page. DaVinci is so powerful, but you have to learn their way to do everything, and that is my complaint with Final Cut Pro X. I would much rather have multiple ways to do things, and you can find the way that suits your editing style. I feel like the engineers win here over the actual users. And I hate that.